HotS update at BlizzCon?

[Articorse]

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@dustinbrowder

I can understand the Tychus thing, actually I was expecting it. The end of the universe thing is too vague to comment on. I PRAY that 'Tassadar playing a huge role' is meant retroactively, meaning he set in motion a lot of things, not that Force Ghost Tassadar(tm) will be doing stuff. Duran being a Xel'Naga makes very little sense, unless they have splinter groups, which hasn't been so much as hinted as so far, as far as I know.

And I really... REALLY hope they don't start reviving characters like they're doing in WoW. I love the Overmind, Fenix, Aldaris and Duke as characters, but I honestly hope I never have to see them again within the SC lore, unless it's in flashbacks. All their deaths were handled beautifully, it'd be absolutely anti-climactic to see them return.

Having said that, I really hope Blizzard make in-game units for all of them.

Off-topic: How do you make spoiler tags?

[Sheliek]

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@dustinbrowder

I can understand the Tychus thing, actually I was expecting it. The end of the universe thing is too vague to comment on. I PRAY that 'Tassadar playing a huge role' is meant retroactively, meaning he set in motion a lot of things, not that Force Ghost Tassadar(tm) will be doing stuff. Duran being a Xel'Naga makes very little sense, unless they have splinter groups, which hasn't been so much as hinted as so far, as far as I know.

And I really... REALLY hope they don't start reviving characters like they're doing in WoW. I love the Overmind, Fenix, Aldaris and Duke as characters, but I honestly hope I never have to see them again within the SC lore, unless it's in flashbacks. All their deaths were handled beautifully, it'd be absolutely anti-climactic to see them return.

Having said that, I really hope Blizzard make in-game units for all of them.

Off-topic: How do you make spoiler tags?

I'd forgive it if it was only done to Aldaris.

[Iceman_jkh]

I don't think people will be bored. Look at SC BW, 13 Years and people still play it, and it still is god damn interesting...

Disagree. Firstly, SC and SC2 are different games, made in different times, against different expectations.

Secondly, some people ARE bored already.

[DemolitionSquid]

I'm bored already of SC2. The entire game failed to meet my standards.

[Hav0x]

They did reveal that (spoilers, select the text to read) Tychus is alive indirectly, they did reveal that Kerrigan unwillingly and not knowing will start the end of the universe and they revealed that most dead characters are actually alive in one way or another.
They Revealed Tassadar will play a huge role and Duran is actually one of the Xel'Naga.

Where did you see this? All I heard was them joking about Tychus being infested and that Tassadar and Adun have a connection.

[DemolitionSquid]

Where did you see this? All I heard was them joking about Tychus being infested and that Tassadar and Adun have a connection.

That's all I was able to pull from the conversations as well. I think DB is high on sundrop.

[Blazur]

I was gonna question his source and that info, it certainly did some suspect. Since when did Blizz ever release critical spoilers like that?

[LordofAscension]

I'm very confused as to the guys question about Tassadar being a ghost. He says that he has never tasted death nor will he. They confirmed that there was some honkey-tonkey with Tassadar and Adun, transcendence? same being? the highest form of purity? Stay tuned to forthcoming SC:L editorials!

~LoA

[DemolitionSquid]

I'm still peeved about the whole Tassadar Force Ghost shit.

Worst. Ripoff. Plot. Device. Ever.

[flak4321]

That's all I was able to pull from the conversations as well. I think DB is high on sundrop.

There seems a preponderance of evidence to deny DB's claims, with or without sundrop, however LoA is not so given to flights of fancy, even in his Zeratul-Cryptic post, which implies that at least some of what DB is saying has some merit. We will just have to wait and see.

Side notes: What we do know for certain is Duran is not of the 3 primary races, which Leaves Xel'Naga or something else entirely. 50/50 chances there. This is mentioned in both the BW bonus level and "Twilight", book 3 of Dark templar saga, p 217-218. (paperback edition, unless otherwise noted)

And we also know that Tassadar's "ghost" is some form of possibly ascended Tassadar whose role hints at the prophetic, from LoA quoting the campaign script. The notes on a possible Tassadar/Adun link are in the recent 3 book "Dark Templar Saga", notably the conversations with Zeratul. He notes that it is prophecied that Adun will come again and may have returned once" ("Twighlight", p 137-141 under the story of Anakh Su'n).

Also, this is reference slightly in "The Queen of Blades," when Jimmy asks Zeratul why a protoss could not do both (wield light and dark energies), to which Z responded: only one other has dared walk both paths (paraphrasals). This other, as we learned in this book and "Shadow Hunters" (DTS book 2) is Adun. Thus we could say the two are already linked (twice) and that Blizz is going to flesh this link out.